Horseshoe.



H. w. SEIBYER.

HORSESHOE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.2 1915.

Patentd July 6, 1915.

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To all whom it may concern 1 Be it known that I, HARVEY W. SEIBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canal Dover, in the county of Tuscarawas I have invented a new and of which the following and State of Ohio,

is a specification. g

The device forming the subjectmatter of this application is a horseshoe, and themvention aims particularly, to improve the construction of the removable calks which are assembled with the shoe, and toprovide nov l means wh reby the calks are held upon the shoe.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in'the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the, precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 shows the invention in bottom plan; Fig.. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig.- 3 is a section on the line 1; Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the heel of the shoe, the heel calk being detached; Fig. 7 is a top plan of the heel calk.

In the drawings therevis shown a horseshoe 1 provided at its toe with a depending lug 2 which tapers as it extends downwardly p the. calk, enhance the hold as indicated at 3.

The invention comprises a reversible tubular toe calk 4, the interior of which is tapered, so that the toe calk may be wedged firmly onto the lug 2. .At its ends, and in its interior, the calk 4 is equipped with longitudinal ribs 5 adapted to be received in longitudinal grooves 6 formed in the ends of the lug 2. As shown at 7, the upper face of the calk 4 is spaced apart from the lower face of the shoe 1, so that the calk 4may be wedged onto the lug 2 tightly and become more securely wedged'thereonafter a 'ro-' tracted period of use. As indicated at 8, the lower edge of the calk 4 is spaced below the lower end of the lug 2, and consequently, the entire periphery of the tubular calk4 is made eflicie'nt to afiord a ground gripping element. Owing to the manner in which the ribs 5 on the calk 4 cooperate with reversible heel to, the end that the calk wedged onto the lug. The

thecalks 12 maybe shaped as desired. v-.As shown at 17 they are of chisel form,.but this f 33 of Fig. 1'; Flg. 4 is a section on the line 4'4 of Fig.'

shoe. aving a tapered side face with a longitudinal groove; and a tubular calk having a tapered recessin which the lug is wedged, the lower end ofheld on the lug. Further, the ribs serve to reinforce the calk. Again, it is to be observed that since the ribs 5 extend downwardly'to, the lower face of the calk 4, the

Specification of Lette rsl aiteiit.

Application fi1ed Apri120, 1915. Serial No. 22,525. V l I grooves in the calk firmly I inner edge of the calk is rendered discontinuous and interrupted, thereby enhancing the hold of the calk on the ground.

At its heels, the shoe 1 is equipped with tapered lugs 9having longitudinal grooves 10 of the sorthereinbefore described. The

provided with tapered recesses 16 whereby the heel calks 9. The internal are shown at grooves 10in scribed. The 12 is spaced the manner hereinbefore deapart from the lower face of may be wedged onto the lug ribs of the heel calks l2 l1 and cooperate with the calksappearat 12and are upper face of each heel calk A I the shoe 1,-asshown at 14, and the lower end face of the lug 9 is spaced apart from the bottom ofthe recess 16, as shownat 15, h

feature of the invention isnot insisted upon.

Generally considered, the present invention discloses a novel means: whereby a calk may be held on a lug of a horseshoe, the calk'being-reinforced and strengthened by those elements, towit, the ribs, which aidf'in holding the calk on the shoe lock.

The tubular toe calk 4 presents an un usually effective gripping surface and the wedged, the calk being provided in its inreceived in the groove forcement'for the calk.

In a device of the class described, a lug provided in its the calk projecting below the lower end of my e fi ywo-rking ends of- .terior with a longitudinally extended rib and forming a re1n-.

the lug to afford an anti-slipping surface,

the calk being provided in its interior with In testimony that I claim the foregoing as a longitudinal rib received in the groove, my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature the rib constituting a reinforcement for the in the presence of two Witnesses.

call: and serving to break the continuity of HARVEY W. SEIBER. 5 the calk at the ground engaging end there Witnesses:

of, thereby to enhance the hold of the calk HOWARD SEIBER,

on the ground. A. V. LIND.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, I). 0. 

